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MPs today voted not to approve the assisted dying bill at its second reading. The bill, which was brought back to the Commons after being blocked in the Lords, would have allowed terminally ill people to end their lives…

The Foreign Secretary earlier this week announced the UK would sanction goods from Israeli settlements in the Palestinian West Bank.

A criminal investigation has been launched into allegations that Reform UK breached foreign donation rules

MPs quietly withdrew support when it became clear it was not a priority of Andy Burnham’s government After two years of impassioned arguments, tearful personal testimonies, noisy protests and ethical dilemmas, the…

Zack Polanski will stand as the Green party candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection slated for 8 October, the party confirmed on Friday.  The announcement means local members voted to select Polanski over a…

One rabbi described the recent settler violence as ‘violation of God’s name of the worst order’

Leader of the opposition rehashes last week’s questions on defence policy but comes up short against a new PM who preaches consensus politics The case of the dog that didn’t bark in the night. Sometimes prime minister’s…

This week’s move suggests that, even in the age of Trump, Britain will once again have an ‘ethical dimension’ to its foreign policy. That’s good for the world Almost 30 years ago, the Labour titan Robin Cook announced…

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Films have nullified the crowd

His GOP is losing the youth

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The country is ancient and uncanny

The Lifeboat charity RNLI has warned its volunteers against wearing its branding in public in light of harassment from far right agitators. Plus: Albanians have been protesting for over 100 days against a luxury hotel…

Letter from 70 MPs and peers follows Anthropic employee’s claim new technology could wipe out humans AI could kill all humans in next decade, warn experts: but how seriously should we take them? More than 70 MPs and…

Greens accuse Labour of hiding approval recommendation to avoid controversy ahead of key ballot A decision on approving the controversial Jackdaw gasfield in the North Sea is to be delayed until later this autumn, with…

A mature society understands the difference between use and misuse, enjoyment and dependency, risk and recklessness. An increasingly paternalistic strain of campaigning refuses to acknowledge those distinctions. The…

Voted Aye LAB 190LIB 52CON 17GRN 5PC 3IND 2 1 Luke Akehurst North Durham LAB 2 Sadik Al-Hassan North Somerset LAB 3 Dan Aldridge Weston-super-Mare LAB 4 Heidi Alexander Swindon South LAB 5 Douglas Alexander Lothian East…

The government announces the change in approach as the virus continues to spread in the UK.

Colin Sutton's office says it will take place in his own time and will not affect his work.

France wants to scrap the one in, one out deal and replace it with a scheme under which Britain would take asylum seekers from anywhere in the entire EU. Yes, the entire EU… Laurent Nuñez, the French interior minister,…

Warnings of AI’s existential threat to humanity are piling up – it’s time to listen and take them deadly seriously Another day, another horseman of the apocalypse galloping over the horizon. Lately we have heard from so…

A significant majority of British adults support the UK government’s ban on imported goods from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, a YouGov survey has revealed.  The survey came on Wednesday, the day…

Conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean must defend a living culture; however, much retreating from the world and dismantling what's left of our civilisation may seem desirable. There is still much to be…

Is this the week when AI safety broke into the mainstream? On Wednesday, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation from the company on X, claiming that AI’s big players are “gambling with our lives”.…

As the prime minister looks ahead to autumn, Labour figures are asking whether his government represents continuity or change.

The cabinet minister tells the BBC she wanted to ensure the plans could survive potential legal actions.

Burnham may have morphed the concept of  “we talked right and governed left” into “we’re talking different, and governing the same”. It’s also possible we have the question he might try to pose in any 2027 election:…

That is why today's debate cannot simply be treated as a rerun of June 2025. MPs, whatever their personal view on the principle of assisted suicide, would do well to reject this bill today. Britain is already grappling…

The Commons no longer has the time required to educate future premiers, which is one reason why they last such a short time in office. The post Like most other recent PMs, Sunak got to the top without serving a proper…